so i went for another run, tonight. much better pacing. felt like i could have gone longer but it was getting late. as i finished my planned 3 miles i looked at the polar to see if it too said i was at 3 miles (as the treadmill said) and to scroll through the other fun stats like calories burned and average pace and all that good stuff...lo and behold for the first time in my life i almost fell off the thing. my shoes were screeching against the treadmill belt like tires on a road. i swung my arm out and caught the right rail of the 'mill. it happened so fast, i just don't know how i caught myself. so of course i got back on and proceeded to look at my HR monitor like i'm all cool and this is very normal for me at 3 miles, to look down and wildly swing my arms about for a railing. i circiled the HR spike that occured during the aforementioned mishap--my highest rate of the run. whew. i think 10 people or less witnessed my stupidity, it wasn't too busy. so i ended up running 3.2 miles, an extra 0.2 miles of trying to figure out how to escape the club through the least traveled paths to the locker room and then out the lot.